Enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities together with Stanford and MIT, together with the Nationwide Science Basis, in a bunch chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officers, in line with screenshots viewed by the Washington Post.
In keeping with the Put up, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended twenty years in the past) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He additionally reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my wife out [as chair of its Center on Philanthropy and Civil society] without a second thought, a decision that will cost them something like $5 billion in future donations.”
In a separate message that didn’t point out a selected college, Andreessen reportedly stated that universities “declared war on 70% of the country and now they’re going to pay the price.” He took intention at “DEI and immigration,” which he reportedly described as “two forms of discrimination” which are “politically lethal.”
Final yr, Andreessen and his Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz each stated that they had been supporting Donald Trump’s marketing campaign to return to the White Home. Andreessen’s allies have subsequently taken roles within the Trump administration.
TechCrunch has reached out to a16z for remark. In the meantime, Sequoia Capital has remained silent following companion Shaun Maguire’s criticism of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York Metropolis mayor, as an “Islamist” who “comes from a culture that lies about everything.”
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